More Valintines Crafting

I used my favorite sugar cookie recipe (thanks Kristin).  Cut our shapes you want and lay them in the pan on top of the stick.  I used skewer stick because that is what I had.  I cut some of them off to make shorter stick.
I used a glaze frosting I got form Our Best Bites.  I had not used the glaze icing before.  It was fun to swirl around the white is one of the colors with a toothpick.  I had to use royal icing to put some of the stick back on the cookies.  If you want an indepth tutorial go Here

Valentine Garland

 I was looking at blogs this morning and found this tutorial.  I had to try it especially since I had every thing I needed on hand.  This it the link for the step by step tutorial Valentine-heart-ribbon.  I did a few things differently. For one I hot glued the buttons rather then sewing them (just call me lazy or practical).  I sewed over the ribbon like she suggested and it was pretty thick, but it still sewed OK. 

Thank you everyone

A digital ecard by Smilebox

We had a great Christmas! The kids have had a great time playing with cousins, new toys and play outside in the snow. I have enjoyed visiting with family and friends.

1st Birthday

For Colton's birthday we had dinner opened present and had cake and ice cream.  The kids were so excited to watch Colt upon his present.  Tate could only stand to wait a few seconds before he said I need to "help him".  Colton has a skin reaction to milk so I frosted his cupcakes with shortening and water frosting.  He did not seem to mind he devoured several cupcakes.   Colton is a lovable baby with a great smile.  He has found his way to be noticed with his glass braking screams.  He is a climber, and can get where he wants to with out walking.  We had to take the bunk bed latter down because he would climb up there any chance he got. He loves pushing trucks around, and likes going for horse rides on his Dad's back.


  (the post shows the html for the pictures but I can not see them.  I'm having trouble with the new "insert image" I get the picture download and select the pictures and I don't see any thing on the post.  I would take any help I can get.)

Another not so ordinary day

Last Monday Tyler went with Cam and his Grandpa to the Range Tour  were Governor Butch Otter was invited to tour the range and see how important the grazing land is to family's.  Tyler was not to excited to see the range, but he was very excited about meeting the Governor.  (but he would like to add he did see some land he has never seen before!)  Tyler asked if he could get a picture with him.   Tyler's grandpa said he was the 6th generation in the cowboy business.  Cam wanted Tyler to ask Governor Otter if he would protect state land, so he could take his cows there when he was an old Grandpa.  All in all a good experience for the "Little Lad".

Not every day

On Sunday Cam asked  if I wanted to go move his wheel line with him.  He said "it will be hot and boring".   It ended up being far from boring.  When he got to the field a glider plane was laying close to his wheel line.  The pilot said he lost the air current, and went down.  His friend crashed a mile down the road in a grain field..

The kids going to find were the plane came down.

  

I'm standing at the plane and the kid are standing where the glider plane crashed.

This is the glider plane that crashed in the hay field.

Memorial Weekend

Last Friday Cam needed me to do an errand for him where my parents live so I went and stayed with my parents.  We meet my Mom at the Park for a picnic and kids played only a few minutes before the rain started so we ran to a shelter with the food.  Some of the kids went to the skate park and ran around in the rain.  They ended up dripping wet.

We went to my parents and the kids were very excited for the new "toy".

We decided to make a stream-waterfall-pond to the side of my parents house.  the kids helped haul some rocks from the pasture to use for the project.  Mostly they had a good time playing with cousins.

The water feature is a work in progress.
The next day my Dad did some work on it while I worked on two sewing projects (a high chair cover and a skirt for Adele's Birthday)
Later that evening we stopped at the cemetery were my grandparents, great grandparents, and my great great grandparents are buried.  Also Colton's and my Dad's name sake is buried there.

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We had a great time for a last minute trip!  Thanks Mom and Dad!

3rd try

This is the picture I tried to put on the last post.

This Kid

I was playing with Picasa 3 again, and had to share this picture! When we moved the Cows last week Tyler and Adele did not want to come with us to move the cows so it was just Tate and Colton who came. Tyler and Adele had read-a-thon, field trip,s Field-day and other end of the school fun things going on. That had great time playing with the Smith grand kids that came along. He can be so sweet, and a trouble maker all at the same time and make me laugh and cry. I have more pictures I want to share with the cows, birthdays, and other fun things. Hopefully I can do that after I have some lunch. The kids are over at there cousins house right know (except Colton).

Not to late for a Easter Basket?

Adele, Tyler and I made these baskets/bags yesterday.  We got the idea out of "Parents" magazine (parents.com).

We used decrative sissors to cut the bag shorter and cut off the handles.  Your can have the bag flat and cut straight across.  Punch a hole for the ribbon on each side and pull it through and make a knot.  I used glue dots to keep the ribbon in place around the bag.

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( The flower directions were more complicated so I will put the magazines directions on.  Don't be intimited the flowers are a great thing to know how to do.  The posibilities with them are endless!)

 "Flowers"
What you'll need  Various colors of tissue paper, scissors (regular or decorative-edged).  floral wire, hot-glue gun.
Make it Cut tissue paper into 5-7 inch rectangles.  Stack 3 to 6 pieces, alternating colors.  Accordion-fold the tissue paper lengthwise and wrap wire around the middle (before I separated the tissue paper I cut each end at an angle.  It made them look like petals) .  Gently separate each layer, pulling upward toward the middle of the flower.  Attach finished flowers to the bag with hot-glue gun.